NON-ZIONIST IN AMERICA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR JEWISH STATEHOOD

Includes references to the role of antisemitism, which was on the rise in the U.S. in the 1930s-early 1940s, as a determinant in the attitudes and policies of Jewish non-Zionist groups. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) ; Tracing the evolution of European nationalist ideology, from its revolutionary and liberal phase to the most xenophobic forms, emphasizes the complex interaction between those "dark sides" of nationalism and the shape of secular modern antisemitism, with special reference to Germany, Poland, the Habsburg Empire, and tsarist Russia. Focuses on the negative stereotype of the Jew in German intellectual life, summarizing the ideas of the main theorists of modern antisemitism (e.g. Heinrich von Treitschke). Points out the rise of political antisemitism before and after World War I. In the context of the growth of antisemitic movements, discusses the weight of the Dreyfus Affair, blood libels (e.g. Tiszaeszlar, Polna, the Beilis trial), and the Kishinev pogrom in 1903. Examines the new stereotype of the Jew as the embodiment of the communist danger following the Bolshevik Revolution, as well as the propagandistic role of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Outlines the Holocaust period, antisemitic policy in different European countries and the influence of Nazi ideology, viewed as the culmination of modern racist antisemitism. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism) ; Memoirs of Kenneth, born as Lubek Weissberg in 1924 in Krakow; pt. 2 (pp. 37-80) describe his experiences in the Holocaust. In 1940 he, his parents, and his brother left Krakow to live in the village of Slomniki. Kenneth's family was soon deported and killed; he was sent to the Płaszów I labor camp, where he worked for the camp commandant, Josef Mueller, and traded profitably on the black market. He escaped from the camp in early 1943 and obtained a false ID. Posing as a Pole, he volunteered to work in Germany and was sent to Trier, where he was liberated. Kenneth worked for U.S. army intelligence, then returned to Poland, and emigrated to Israel in 1948.